We interviewed major vendors about claims that attacks using AI are increasing. Hitachi, Accenture and IBM Japan shared their views, revealing differences in the evidence and timing cited for the increase in attacks.
As questions grow over whether domestic cyberattacks have increased over the past month, Hitachi said advances in AI have shortened the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation from several weeks to several hours, raising the volume and speed of attacks to a new level. Accenture, meanwhile, said it had a sense that attacks were increasing, but could not provide specific figures because it had not collected data from published sources. IBM said it had the impression that more recent incidents had been publicly disclosed, but that it was difficult to distinguish between when an incident occurred and when it was disclosed, making it difficult to determine trends based on the number of incidents alone.
Kanako Gushi (具志 香菜子) of Hitachi said attacks were “increasing” and emphasized the rise in attack speed. A vendor that declined to disclose its name said it had not observed a significant increase in attacks, explaining that there had been more than 70 reports of damage since September. Accenture said it could not provide figures because it did not collect statistics specific to Japan, but said it had noticed an increase in the number of cases handled by investor relations and security operations center teams. IBM said it was difficult to draw conclusions about trends based solely on the number of publicly disclosed incidents, explaining that differences in the nature of incidents and the timing of disclosure had an impact.
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